Description

Photography After Conceptual Art presents a series of original essays that address substantive theoretical, historical, and aesthetic issues raised by post-1960s photography as a mainstream artistic medium

Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011

Appeals to people interested in artist's use of photography and in contemporary art

Tracks the efflorescence of photography as one of the most important mediums for contemporary art

Explores the relation between recent art, theory and aesthetics, for which photography serves as an important test case

Includes a number of the essays with previously unpublished photographs

About the Author

Diarmuid Costello is Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick. He co-edited (with Dominic Willsdon) The Life and Death ofImages: Ethics and Aesthetics (2008), and (with Jonathan Vickery) Art:Key Contemporary Thinkers (2007). His articles have appeared in BritishJournal of Aesthetics, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, CriticalInquiry, Rivista di Estetica, and Angelaki.

9. Almost Merovingian: On Jeff Wall's Relation to Nearly Everything (Wolfgang Brückle, University of Essex).

10. Morning Cleaning: Jeff Wall and The Large Glass (Christine Conley, University of Ottawa).

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"This volume is the product of both a large-scale research grant and a conference ... All the same, this book could be of interest to those teaching and studying photography in contemporary art." (International Journal of Education through Art, 2011)

"This volume is indispensable for theorists and historians of photography, as well as those concerned with post-1960s contemporary visual culture. Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (Choice, 1 May 2011)